Innovative Psychiatry
Psychiatric Disorders and Creativity: Is there a link? Think about it. Vincent Van Gogh. Virginia Woolf. Michelangelo. Beethoven. Robin Williams. Ernest Hemingway. Carrie Fisher. Anthony Bourdain. Creative Genius. There are hundreds, probably thousands more, who fit right in with this good company. Maybe you do, too. Take John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning mathematician […]
Ketamine Boost Infusions Combined with Infrastructure Changes May Help You Sustain Remission What do you do when the symptoms return? You spent years in that condition. The sadness, the hopelessness…the numbness. That terrible shame. Unable to participate. Shut down. Withdrawn. Or, maybe the symptoms were reactions to sudden noises…smells…darkness… or touch. They may even have […]
IV Ketamine is a Most Extraordinary Medicine Here Are Some Ways to Hold On to Its Benefits This ONE medicine can relieve a wide array of psychiatric disorders. Remission by ketamine treatment is at center stage of the mental health world. The same medicine that lifts depression and restores creativity, initiative, and hope, also stops suicidal thinking […]
Johnson & Johnson and Allergan are now testing new drugs for depression that are based on ketamine. There are still safety concerns. Ketamine, a powerful anesthetic drug, is inspiring scientists and doctors to rethink how we treat depression.Now, two major pharmaceutical companies, Johnson & Johnson and Allergan, are making strides in developing drugs based on […]
The Heartbreak of Suicide – What Can We Do? Each day last week,122 people in the United States took their lives by suicide. We want to talk about Kate Spade … and you. And how the heartbreak of suicide is stealing our loved ones. And what we can do to change that. By now, most of […]
Twenty One Years Old. Enjoying campus life with her friends. Working toward her degree …and her dreams… Then, a soreness in her mouth… and a trip to the doctor. CANCER. “Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue,” the doctor said. What??!!? She’d never heard of such a thing. What could have caused this? How did it […]
After 35 years of mediocre depression drugs, pharmaceutical companies are jazzed about several new drugs inspired by the club drug ketamine. Allergan, the multinational pharmaceutical giant known for Botox and birth control, recently dove into research on an injectable depression drug called Rapastinel. Most recently, the company announced it was working on oral pill version […]
Anorexia, Ketamine, and the Default Mode Network Do you feel good about what you weigh? Or about how you look? If you hesitated to answer, you’re not alone. If you answered No…or…I’m not sure… again, you’re not alone. Survey Says: Majority Don’t Like the Way They Look Allure, a magazine centered on beauty, surveyed 2,497 […]
May is Mental Health Awareness Month Eating Disorders Are Psychiatric Disorders Surprised? Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder… The National Eating Disorder Association lists 10 conditions as eating disorders. And, it so happens that ketamine treatment can work wonders and restore your life. Too many people who don’t have a family member suffering with an […]
Postpartum Depression and Paternal Postpartum Depression Mental Health Awareness Month is also Maternal Depression Awareness Month #BreaktheSilence So let’s stamp out the stigma and talk about mothers and Postpartum Depression. Treating postpartum depression requires fast-acting treatments because there’s so much at stake. Pregnant and breastfeeding moms are targets for anxiety and depression for so many […]